Album Rating: 4.0
acid bath is listed despite having broken up in 96 or 97
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Album Rating: 4.0
kind of worked though, that was metal's peak in the mainstream. pretty quality stuff was popular too, especially compared to now lol
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I feel like TBDM was under that umbrella. Miasma came out in 2005, and that album put them on the map. I don't know how old you are, but all these mid-2000s albums breaking around the same time often just lumped bands into it. Also I remember LoG specifically, and very minimally TBDM as well, often had people arguing what genre they are. The most important argument!
For LoG it was a question of "are they metalcore or thrash" and then someone would come in and say "they're groove metal". I swear some people called TBDM metalcore at some point, which was probably death metal purists scoffing at them. So I feel like if you were considered metalcore, or adjacent enough, in some circles then you were under that term.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I started paying attention to contemporary metal bands about halfway through high school, so like 2006. I guess looking back on it I'm basing this off of who everyone sat with lol I'd sit with my scene kid friends who all had like TDWP and TBDM or AILD shirts, and there was another group of metalheads who had like Shadows Fall and Lamb of God shirts, so I always assumed that was NWOAHM. They were cool though, one dude had an actual medically necessary eye patch.
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Also I'm realizing that NWOAHM is a completely meaningless descriptor. I always thought it applied to bands like Lamb of God and Shadows Fall which threw together thrash, groove, some barking vocals with lots of solos and riffs, etc. But no, apparently it also includes basically every American metal band from like 2000 to 2010 lol"
I think most people understand what you're talking about when you say NWOAHM though, so I wouldn't say meaningless, but it is a wider range of bands than you might think. It was more of an era thing than a genre thing, though most fell under a similar umbrella. Lot of the metalcore-adjacent bands got lumped in with it.
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that was right about the time i was getting into metal. the NWOAHM poster bands, at least in my orbit at the time, were bands like lamb of god, trivium, avenged sevenfold, devildriver, unearth, shadows fall, killswitch engage, god forbid, hatebreed, etc.
which is to say it was mostly at the intersection of metalcore, thrash, and melodic death metal with some other uniquely american stylistic flourishes like nu metal and hardcore.
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Album Rating: 4.0
same here. what a time to be a metalhead as a kid. now we have sleep token and spiritbox. this says a lot about society.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Also same.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Chimaira m/
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Album Rating: 4.5
New album kicks ASS.
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The hometown bois
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Album Rating: 4.5
M//////EN
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Gonna make a list ranking this fucker in a bit
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Album Rating: 5.0
god-tier album, changed the game forever
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Album Rating: 4.0
Futures hah!
You’re becoming an old fucking man like me! My generation said the same thing when LoG broke into the scene…
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Album Rating: 4.5
Man, time really does fly lol.
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I would go between this, Doomsday Machine, and The End of Heartache CDs in the car most of 11th grade
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Album Rating: 4.5
Both great choices.
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